strings Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 19, 2017 CategoriesFine-tuningPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Brian Greene, Columbia University, Ethan Siegel, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, nature, Peter Woit, Philip Ball, string theory, Theory of Everything Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence Denyse O’Leary July 19, 2017 Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences 6 String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.” Read More ›
chichen-itza-osservatorio-stockpack-adobe-stock-372957455-stockpack-adobestock Type post Date November 4, 2016 CategoriesAstronomyCosmologyCultural AnthropologyIntelligent Design Tagged , __nedited, Anthropic Principle, black holes, closed-mindedness, information theory, limits of science, materialism, Origin, SETI, string theory, theoretical physics, viewpoint diversity How Consensus Can Blind Science Science & Culture November 4, 2016 Astronomy, Cosmology, Cultural Anthropology, Intelligent Design 9 Visiting a Mayan temple, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb had a revelation. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 17, 2016 CategoriesScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, creationism, critics, hype, John Horgan, multiverse theory, peer-reviewed, pseudoscience, science journalism, Scientific American, simulation, skepticism, skeptics, straw man, string theory, tribal affiliation Two Kinds of Science “Skepticism” David Klinghoffer May 17, 2016 Scientific Reasoning 5 Science journalist John Horgan makes the great distinction between skepticism directed at "soft" versus "hard" targets. Read More ›
